Women's Bantabaa aspiration is always to tell a story that has never been told and bring a story to public that are always waving the flag of freedom yet standby silently with the concerning situation of the people, their narratives, their perspectives, their understanding of the world around them, without feeling that they are constantly defending their religious and cultural identity.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Rural women in the Upper Baddibu District on Wednesday 22 gathered at Ngeyen Sanjal, most of whose children were identified malnourished that needed referral for specialized treatment to receive food for their children.
As the world’s forefront organisation fighting hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union gave out vegetable oil and micronutrient fortified super cereal to save young children from malnutrition and death, especially in the hunger season.
The WFP, jointly with the National Nutrition Agency, targeted 25, 000 children under five for three months living in 14 districts with high rates of wasting which is above 10 percent and experiencing food stress in Ngeyen Sanjal.

Almost 12 solid days after Taranga FM was shut down, members of the public have demanded explanation from the Gambia government for shutting down the privately-owned community radio station at Sinchu Alagie.

Security officers reportedly from the National Intelligence Agency on Tuesday 14 August ordered the station to close down operation with immediate effect.

Taranga is the only radio station that reviews local newspapers both in English and local languages which attracted public attention, even though many attempts were made by the authorities to close it down.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

With solemn voices, Gambian women in the rural village of Mandory, Central Baddibu District, North Bank Region, have recently lamented the poor road and lack of good transportation to sell their goods after spending hours under the hot sun. Women’s Bantabaa agreed, owing to the deafening cries of these women, especially rural women. During a discussion with these rural women, they raised concern over the bad state of some of the major roads in the district, fertilizers and fencing materials. They said bad roads and lack of markets were negatively affecting their business, on which they depend for their living.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

The controversy surrounding the professorship claims of the first Gambian-born vice chancellor of University of The Gambia, Mohammadou M.O. Kah, refuses to die down, weeks after it surfaced. On Thursday August 9, Mr Gumbo Touray, a former UTG lecturer, insisted in court that Kah’s professorship claims were false, as he did not meet the requirements of a professor.“For him to qualify as professor, he had to meet all the qualifications,” he said.

For the fourth consecutive time on Wednesday the prison authorities could not bring former police chief, Ensa Badjie, to court.
During the previous sitting, the magistrates’ court in Banjul, Magistrate Ade Taiwo Alagbe, had ordered that the embattled former police chief be brought to court.
However, the case which was supposed to resume on Wednesday suffered yet another setback due to the absence of Ensa Badjie, who is being kept at Mile 2 since his dismissal in 2010.

Friday, August 10, 2012

For the fourth consecutive time on Wednesday the prison authorities could not bring former police chief, Ensa Badjie, to court.During the previous sitting, the magistrates’ court in Banjul, Magistrate Ade Taiwo Alagbe, had ordered that the embattled former police chief be brought to court.However, the case which was supposed to resume on Wednesday suffered yet another setback due to the absence of Ensa Badjie, who is being kept at Mile 2 since his dismissal in 2010.

The programme coordinator of Gamcotrap, a women’s rights organisation, said the contract between Gamcotrap and Yalocamba Solidaridad, a Spanish charity, did not mention micro-credit.Omar Dibba said GAMCOTRAP did not make any commitment to implement micro-credit as alleged. “That we sign a micro-credit contract with YALOCAMBA SOLIDARIDAD is out of context. We did not sign anything with the region of Madrid. It is YALOCAMBA SOLIDARIDAD who signed a contract with them,” he added.

The Special Criminal Court in Banjul on Monday heard that the accusation that former police chief and two top military officers named President Yahya Jammeh in their alleged illicit drug trade, were fabricated.

Dismissed top army officer, Major Kuluteh, said the Gambia’s Nigerian-born former chief prosecutor, Richard Chenge, put the president’s name in the charge to invite President Jammeh’s wrath upon them.

Alarming death of prisoners has followed the release a few months ago of human rights reports that expose inhumane, degrading conditions of Gambian prisons.

In space of six months, four deaths of inmates at Mile 2, the country’s central prison, situated at the outskirts of Banjul, have been reported, though an ex-inmate had told this paper that what was reported ‘is the tip of the ice bag’.

“It is true that Micheal Uche Thomas has died,” the Commissioner of Prisons, Ansumana Manneh on Monday told The Daily News, confirming the death of yet another prisoner caged at Mile 2, on Sunday July 29.

The accused coupist Alieu Lowe’s claim that state investigators tortured him to make his voluntary and cautionary statements which the prosecutors wished to tender in court as evidence against him had been rejected.

In a ruling that resets the stage for the trial proper, Emmanuel Nkea, the presiding judge at the Special Criminal Court in Banjul on Monday ruled that Mr Lowe voluntarily made his statements.

This decision marked the end of the legal battle over the admissibility of the statements, which were finally tendered in court.

Abdoulie Njie and Alieu Lowe, both civilians, are on trial in connection with the abortive 2006 attempted coup, allegedly led by the former defence chief, Ndure Cham, who has since fled.

Both Njie and Lowe, who have been in detention since 2006, however, denied charges of concealment of treason – an offence that attracts death penalty.

Moreover, Mr Lowe is also charged with perjury and subornation perjury, but denied any wrong doing.

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Binta A Bah is a young Gambian journalists/blogger who is excited, on the sustainability reporting front which she took as massive a headway as a career. She is the publisher of women’s Bantabaa, an online blog which focuses on human rights, particularly women’s right, press freedom and freedom of expression. She started the journalism trade with The Daily News in 2009 while pursuing a one year certificate course in journalism at Insight Training Center. She hold a diploma in journalism. At The Daily News, she rose through the ranks to become a senior judicial affairs correspondent. She has a vast experience of covering high profile cases including treason trials. She run the ‘Musoolula Bantabaa’ on the Daily News, a weekly column that focuses on women’s affairs. In 2011, she was awarded The Daily News Journalist of the year. She now works with the Standard Newspaper as an associate editor following the closure of The Daily News by state authorities.